†family Melosauridae Fritsch 1885 (tetrapod)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Melosauridae
Parent taxon: Archegosauroidea according to M. A. Shishkin et al. 2000
See also Carroll 1988, Gubin 1997 and Schoch and Milner 2000
Sister taxon: Archegosauridae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution: found only at Starobogdanovka - Locality 46 of Tverdokhlebov et al. 2005 (Permian of Russian Federation)